Website development is one of the fastest growing fields in the tech industry. The shifting of almost all human activities including business and communication to the web platform, combined with the penetration of internet to every corner of the world has made it necessary for all organizations to start their own websites. Today, having a well maintained website is necessary for the growth of any enterprise or organization. Development of advanced and easy to use website design tools and technologies have made it possible for every individual to start their own website. They have also reduced the cost of developing and maintaining a website. Today people use simple personal blogs as well as highly developed interactive websites to express their feelings and ideas to the world.
Website development is a highly developed field that employs a wide variety of professionals including web designers, web content developers, programmers, server maintenance professionals and even persons for interacting with the public through the website. The number of professionals required to develop and maintain a website depends on the use and size of website. For the development of a simple static page website only single web designer is required. Depending on the type of website a graphic designer or an information systems technician would be required to help the designer. On the other hand for large organizations with very large number of clients and doing huge business would require hundreds of people to look after various aspects of website development and maintenance.
Among the web professionals website development usually refers to website design. It is the process of planning and creating web pages as seen on the web browsers. For these web designers use mark up languages like HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and programming languages like JavaScript. HTML and CSS are the fundamental technologies used in web designing. HTML is used for setting the structure of the web page and CSS is used for setting the appearance (style and layout). JavaScript is used for writing codes that could be read by web browsers. Using these tools web designers develop simple static pages to most advanced web pages with interactive applications for business and social networking. The navigation through the highly developed web pages is using hyperlinks that can look like texts, images or anything else.
Recent years saw the development of many easy to use web development softwares and tools which includes Adobe Dreamweaver, Netbeans, WebDev, Microsoft Expression Studio and Adobe Flex. These easy to use tools or softwares made it easy for any person to start their own websites within a short time without much effort. A person does not need to know HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) or any other programming languages to design web pages using these tools. Many people utilize these tools to promote their business or other causes easily on the web world. A lot of web development tools and platforms like LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) are available free of cost to the public for development of web sites.
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